GARDENING FOR AND BY AMATEURS. 19 



You will at once perceive that this can only be done where space 

 is large enough to contain from three to five distinct classes, and 

 planted in such way that with one variety blooming, to produce 

 the whole effect in yellow, and this effect to continue from the 

 beginning of the doronicum to the hardy sunflower and zinnia, 

 which really run into the frost season, making the period from 

 frost to frost. The same effect can be had with other varieties in 

 pink, white, red, and blue. It must also be observed that the color 

 block will not maintain the same height throughout the season. 

 If the first period is to be yellow with pansies, it will be dwarf, 

 and if with doronicum it will be from IS to 24 inches high. The 

 same would be true of other colors, but a choice can be made from 

 a complete list of plants or seeds, divided up in color and height. 



It is to be observed when seedlings are used that the seed is not 

 to be sown in the show bed but in either boxes, frames, or borders, 

 where they can be cultivated to the blooming size and then trans- 

 planted to" the permanent place in the show garden, with the excep- 

 tion of poppies. 



The following list is made up of varieties in color and height to 

 give a good effect when used as named and in that portion of the 

 border as the height will require: 



For Borders. 



Combination 1. Delphinium (Gold Medal Hybrids). White 

 Phlox (hardy). Pink Phlox (Drummondi, annual). Alternated 

 with pink Snapdragons. 



Combination 2. Pink Hollyhocks. Pink perennial Phlox. 

 Blue and white Campanula or Platycodon. 



Combination 3. Digitalis, pink and purple and pink Physos- 

 tegia. Blue Delphinium and Eupatorium. White hardy Phlox 

 and Achillea the Pearl. 



Plants for Back Row (Tall). 



Hardy Asters. Bocconia, at intervals. Boltonia. Delphin- 

 iums (King and Gold Medal Hybrids). Digitalis. Eupatorium. 

 Grasses. Heliopsis. Hardy Sunflower (Single and Double). 



